Everyone who is a gamer should be aware of the announcements made very recently by the official Lies of P Twitter account. If you have a PlayStation Plus subscription, this one is for you. They declared it as one of the latest free monthly games for PS Plus subscribers. Free, at that! That means that whatever person who is paying for this service via an online payment method will not be charged additional fees for it. Wild to think of how new it is and how the reception has been extraordinarily positive on recent reviews.
So what Lies of P? Under the rock-type question-well, it is a dark and gritty soulslike action-RPG taking the basic elements of a Pinocchio story and tossing many variations around. You play as P, a puppet trying to make it into the human world. What stands in his way? Surviving the city of Krat. Quite an opportunity, really, as the city is half-full of freakish puppet enemies and greater horrors. He’s off looking for Mr. Geppetto. Well, of course. It’s a thing.
The tweet itself is a pretty simple one: lavender-brown, with a great image of the game’s cover art and the tagline about becoming human. Directing the Twitter user toward the official PlayStation Blog announcement. However, the possibility for some entertaining stuff is always right there in the replies, isn’t it?
Somebody called AxelNono070202, with a display name of NonoX, drops in to throw some support in the replies against another user known as AnaAnsan. Now they’re talking about Game Pass? What was that again? Oh right-this seemingly is in the context of some agreement or disagreement comparing with Game Pass. And NonoX points out how with Game Pass once the game leaves the service, you can’t play it anymore-and with PS Plus monthly games, you basically add it to your library, and it’s yours to keep as long as you remain an active subscriber. Very insightful observation. Literally a different mechanism. It’s like, Game Pass is your Netflix subscription for games, PS Plus monthly games is more like… you get to keep renting it? I dunno, the lines tend to get a little blurry sometimes.
Then he went on in another reply saying something to the effect of “There’s a difficulty setting,” to a certain Samantha J. Foster, apparently a composer? Which is funny because Lies of P like many other souls-likes is considered punishingly hard. But the game does in fact have some accessibility options and difficulty settings that players can tweak so those who don’t want to slam their heads against the wall for hours on end have that choice. That’s a very good thing. More games really should have those.
But to continue the main theme here-Lies of P is free right now for PS Plus subscribers. This is a very big one. These aren’t some old indie titles from five years ago. It is a recent, highly acclaimed AAA-style game people were paying full price for not too long ago. It’s the sign that Sony is really keen on pushing the value of that PS Plus subscription, especially with the recent price hikes that had everyone annoyed.
If you’re not big into souls, the game is still decent for checking out. The setting is unique; the combat is tight; and the story…well, Pinocchio with a lot of lying and stabbing. What’s not to love? Now you can go ahead and try it without even paying a dime. Just make sure that you keep your PS Plus subscription alive while claiming and keeping it, or else, once the subscription expires, so does your access.
For anyone considering soulslikes given its difficulty, here, as mentioned in the above reply, are the options to make it a little easier. No excuses, really. Download, survive in Krat, find Geppetto, see if you can become human, or just bash some puppets with a big wrench-it’s hilarious either way. And it’s free. I’ll take that any day.
